No Samantha & Linguswamy for Surya ?

As we have been reporting for weeks, the battle to get Surya has been waging on between Gautham Vasudev Menon & Linguswamy for a quite while now, first there were reports that Surya had choosen Linguswamy since he had the script and Samantha's call sheet ready too , but there was another twist when Linguswamy who had bought the Special 26 remake rights wanted Gautham Menon to direct this remake , this added another twist to the already complicated story.
The Latest buzz now is that Gautham Menon revealed yesterday that he has Surya's dates and he would start the shoot by May , here is the tweet by GVM

I would like to clarify. Suriya has given me dates and we will announce the project very soon..We will start shoot in may.
— Gauthamvasudevmenon (@menongautham) March 18, 2013